Week 5 - ITF ($100K) - Midland, USA Hard

kundalini · Specialist Reporter + Intermediate Club Player

RE: Week 5 - ITF ($100K) - Midland, USA Hard

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

Good tough match play and mental fortitude.
Naomi will play the winner of the match now on court, Shelby Rogers & Hibi Mayo, both of whom looked absolutely dreadful in the last round right up until the point when, inexplicably, they had both won!

Long time reader · Lower Club Player

Really excellent win after losing the tiebreak and going a break down in the 3rd.

I was watching the final set a few minutes delayed and the tension of Naomi serving for the match was slightly broken when the stream jumped to the next match.

Should be very close to having enough points for the french open main draw now.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

Coup Droit wrote:
Jan wrote:
Well done Noami.
I enjoyed that!

me too !!!
She really seems to have a game plan when she plays, at the moment: it's great to see.

I didn't see today's match but I remember thinking exactly the same thing two days ago. She seems really clear on how to maximise her strengths and how to go about beating her opponents.

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Naomi Broady , just brilliant

paulisi · Tennis legend

Excellent result. Left the office with Naomi a breakdown in the final set. Surprised and delighted to find she won.

Great chance to progress even further and only a matter of time before the top 100 is breached.

indiana · Tennis legend

Long time reader wrote:
Really excellent win after losing the tiebreak and going a break down in the 3rd.

I was watching the final set a few minutes delayed and the tension of Naomi serving for the match was slightly broken when the stream jumped to the next match.

Should be very close to having enough points for the french open main draw now.

Yes, she now has 620 ranking points in running ( and she's running pretty fast these days! ) with a maximum of a net whole 3 points to drop before the French Open list comes out. So she's already to a minimum 617 points for then.

I so did not see all this coming just about six months ago and it's all the more pleasing for being so unexpected.

Well done again, Naomi

chavkev · Intermediate Club Player

She has done very well. Both player and coach can be very proud. Hopefully there is a lot more to be proud of in the future too

paulisi · Tennis legend

Is Fitzy out there? Or is Marcus standing in.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
Is Fitzy out there? Or is Marcus standing in.

Pretty sure Fitzy is there

wimdledont · Challenger level

Still has a big doubles match coming up. As her partner is currently on court, they will at least both be familiar with the conditions.

Again served 18 aces, as she did against Gibbs a couple of days ago. If these two matches were in WTA tournaments, she would now have 4 entries on the WTA's "Fun Facts" top 10 list of most aces in a match, 2016, at positions 3,4,5 and 9; and she'd be 20 clear at the top of the 'most aces this year' chart, with 74, leaving Serena and Shazza sharing second place on 54 apiece.

www.wtatennis.com/SEWTATour-Archive/Rankings_Stats/match_stats_2016.pdf

Now at around 106 in the rankings; reaching the final here would take her into Grand Slam DAs, @WR101, having grabbed herself her second-best-ever rankings haul (85 points); winning the final would take her to around WR96, with her best ever ranking points for a week(140).

In the race, she's now at WR45, would move to 35 as RU, and up to 22 if she wins the title.

In the doubles, she moves ahead of Heather as GB4 if she wins later, a new CH of around 124, for making the semis; RU would be her 3rd-best ever points from a week, new CH117ish; the title would be the biggest of her career, best ever weekly points total; and new CH of around 111ish.

And ain't she a joy?

indiana · Tennis legend

When did we last have both 3 men and 3 women in the singles top 100 ? - asks he tempting fate when we currently just have 2 in each.

But c'mon, it's going to be happening fairly ( if not very ) soon.

-- Edited by indiana on Friday 5th of February 2016 06:53:04 PM

PaulM · Tennis legend

Wow. So impressed with her taking the third. Great mentality.

indiana · Tennis legend

It's Shelby Rogers, Naomi's doubles partner, for her in the SF.

Shelby just finished. Then another singles QF. Then Naomi & Shelby due on for their doubles QF.

insomniacfolder · Challenger level

QF: Naomi BROADY (GBR) 112 defeated Madison BRENGLE (USA) [1] 57 6-4 6-7(7) 6-3

SF: Naomi BROADY (GBR) 112 vs. Shelby ROGERS (USA) 151 (CH 70 09/2014)
H2H 2-0
2015 $25K Landisville, PA, USA - Hard - SF - SR[2] - NB won 6-1 6-3
2010 $25K Hammond, LA, USA - Hard - QR1 - NB[q3] - NB won 7-6(3) 6-7(5) 6-4